felt he had support. the neonazis and white nationalists who marched in charlottesville thought they had public support. the chooter of gabby giffords thought he had public support. -- the shooter of gabby giffords thought you had public support. the shooter of steve scalise thought he had public support. what we're doing here today is making it unequivocally clear is that no one has the support to engage in discrimination and racism and anti-semitism, but dr. mays went on to tell us to do better. he said we, and not the assassin, represent america at its best. he said we have the power, not the prejudice, not the bigoted, not the anti-semite, not the assassin, to make things

better. so we, too, in congress have the power and the obligation to make things right. though we come from dramatically diverse backgrounds and though we have lived very different lives, we must all right now stand bigotry. gainst neonazi, white nationalists of ll kind, anti-semites, anti-islmafield goals and those who demean latins that they have no place in public disclosure. and for the record, this will be our third vote on anti-semitic measures. we voted against both of them. you all voted for one and then but >> he is a senior staff writer for roll call, and he joins us ahead of the senate debate and vote on the resolution to terminate the presidents of national emergency declaration to build the southern border wall.

when is the senate expected to take up the resolution, and what is the current plan for the debate and vote? >> most likely the vote will be on thursday, because of the senate is about to depart on a weeklong recess for saint patrick's day, so this'll probably be the last bit of legislation that the senate done before he leaves. what we're really looking to see is if whether or not the senate republicans get together and can muster the votes to be able to at least amend the resolution of termination as it came over from the house. that would effectively stop the national emergency designation for the southern border wall and for border security. we don't yet know whether or not there will be enough republican senators supportive of making any changes to the resolution as

it came from the house. >> the house, it passed in the house last month, 245-182. 13 republicans supported the resolution. what are we going to see in the senate in terms of a breakdown. which republicans do you think might support the resolution? >> we expect a number of republicans to support the resolution, there are several who are already involved. susan collins in maine is the lead republican sponsor of the senate version. lisa murkowski of alaska, the senator from north carolina, rand paul of kentucky are already on board. we expect that if push comes to serve shove and there has to be a vote on that, several republican senators who have been waiting to see what the department of defense wants to

re-program, you know, where military housing or construction projects, or whatever, what they want to take money away from to build a border wall, if the vote of occurs before any of that information is public, it probably becomes a more lopsided vote. >> you recently wrote about the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, his view on the emergency declaration. what has been his view of the resolution to end it? also, how is he influencing other republicans? >> senator mcconnell seems to be sort of keeping his powder dry in terms of of the influence on other senators. mcconnell had said that he would support the president's emergency declaration, but he has not exactly been very strident in his support for it.

he has generally demurred when asked about the actual legality of the emergency declaration. and so i think it is a message from mcconnell to republican senators that they should do what they think is best. now, of course, on the other hand, we have been hearing in recent days that the trump administration has been getting louder and louder in terms of pressuring republican senators to try and keep the vote total down. but i don't think they were going to get this down low enough that it will somehow not pass. >> if the resolution does pass the senate -- we have been hearing that resident plans to veto it -- the president plans to veto it. what is the next step for the house and senate? >> we would have to veto override situation that would have to play out after the march recess week. we don't expect there would be enough votes in

the house -- you mentioned that tally earlier when it passed the house -- we don't think there is enough votes to get to it to a two thirds majority to override the veto. so then we are unfortunately to the courts, into the next round of feuding over appropriations. remember, there have been so many disasters of the national disaster -- natural disaster variety, not the questionable disaster declarations, the border variety, that congress will he to do and which is a supplemental bill to deal with tornado damage, hurricane damage and the like. that is probably the next place where this becomes an issue. there we have emergencies that everyone will agree are emergencies. so there will be money spent there that is not being spent on the wall either. >> we appreciate the information. we will k